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egypt bans file sharing portal you tube for a month over its. video and the renewed violent protests against president morsi. i want to be brought in a lot which is something i do not think. law enforcement or the u.s. government wants under any circumstances it's the third day of what may be the l.a.p.d. the largest manhunt ever bringing no result as the armed and dangerous axe cop disappears into the mountains. and tens of thousands of trade unionists take to the irish streets for a countrywide anti austerity protest this despite a recent decision of the european central bank to ease the country's debt burden.
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and broadcasting it live from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas let's get right to your top stories and egyptian court has ruled it to ban the video sharing web site you tube for a month for hosting a controversial anti islam film is comes as violence returned to the streets of egyptian cities on friday as protesters vented their anger against president mohamed morsi are true reports from cairo. at the moment there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movement we see you keep it as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation all egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling proposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to the ships in china justifying sex mob attacks on
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egyptian protesters in tahrir square what we really face here in egypt if this were any fuel for the violence on the streets we've had a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the journey went into five revolution when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that the president morsi had not made key to changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests as part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which took both into clashes between county cup and protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace when groups talk to the building out with molotov they're pushed back by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with that same couple shaken as well as violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon egyptian journalist and blogger while iskhandar is the government's clampdown on
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internet freedom brings egypt back to the mobarak era what the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore the traffic rule in much like mubarak the governing and i think the way the political actors see it is that mubarak was not ruthless enough and did not sign down freedoms enough to sustain his rule and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms and it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as a threat to their rule one other thing we've seen as well is admins on facebook pages who are critical of the muslim brotherhood are being targeted and we've we're seeing more of these kind of clampdowns either in the physical realm and now they're moving on to doing it technically through you know through you tube and
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various other sites we can expect more of that. and it's not only egypt that has been rocked by anti regime clashes elsewhere in northern africa tensions have escalated in the cradle of the arab spring uprising to me later in the program we'll get expert opinion on if the unrest could give way to another revolution. and can two years of protests bring political change and find out what the chances are of the renewal of dialogue between the government and the opposition in bahrain that much more later in the hour right here on our team. los angeles police are now into the third day of what is believed to be the department's largest ever manhunt as they attempt to track down the ex cop gone rogue christopher dorner who is wanted for allegedly killing three people remains lost for the police somewhere in the mountains of southern california according to dorner is online manifesto the highly trained x. l.a.p.d. officer with a military background has
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a hit list with around forty names on it dorner has effectively declared war on his former colleagues accusing them of corruption racism and brutality investigative journalist michael rupert we used to work in the l.a.p.d. says the department also has many skeletons in its closet. i don't condone what's happened and i want to violence and killing to end but more important i want him to be brought in alive which is something i do not think that l.a.p.d. law enforcement or the u.s. government wants under any circumstances with regard to his specific allegations about his case and i'm currently reviewing legal documents that are becoming available online i have to tell you that with regard to his allegations about rich trial board hearings and. very egregious unprofessional cover up excessive force but also management mouth mouth these perjury and a lot of other serious things i believe him on a percent the l.a.p.d. has been shown and has
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a consistent cultural problem with racism cover up. and cronyism within the department that has victimized i think and probably driven out a great many good officers i left for similar reasons and you can head to our tea dot com and join the discussion on christopher dorner you can also follow the latest updates and read artie's insight on why a former police officer would turn into a vigilante. a moscow court has ordered to place russian opposition leader. under house arrest
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until april sixth the court's decision came out he violated travel restrictions while under investigation. accused of plotting mass destruction tis in the country and inciting violence during protests arteries and he said now he has more on the man in question here merged with the protests as a leader just over a year ago here in russia when anti-government rallies really took off in unprecedented numbers and we quickly became one of the main faces but he's been in politics for much longer really in the late one nine hundred ninety s. he ran for an m.p. seat for a party called the stalinist bloc for the u.s.s.r. and today he's head of the left front which is a young radical communist organization and that's actually how they describe themselves and they're most known publicly for calling for revolution and during the recent protests was detained on multiple occasions for violating police orders and calling on other demonstrators to do the same let's listen to some of the
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things he calls the crowd to do you love oh you're. going to go when you've got. to. do is just. now charges against a very in june he was found guilty of attacking a young woman at one of these. tess and several months ago in october a russian t.v. station aired a documentary which featured hidden camera footage allegedly showing solve trying to raise foreign funding and organize riots here in moscow and other regions throughout the country although opposition activists had initially viewed him as the leader of the sort of face of their movement he often now fails to see eye to eye with fellow activists most recently at a funeral of another activist scuffles broke out between about self and fellow protesters because they were so upset he was trying to use the funeral as a p r platform take
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a look at the scuffles now he's under house arrest but being arrested has really become somewhat. see if you could say he's been taken into jail without detention twelve times in the last twelve months will now see how being under house arrest for those travel restrictions on the violations plays out and we will of course be keeping a close watch on the story online head to our to dot com to learn of the latest arrest may be a signal for the russian opposition to brace itself for further tension with the government. while unemployment rises in the u.k. and wages are being cut the house of commons has announced a vacancy for a new dream job of sorts and the lawmakers are looking to use taxpayers' cash to pay for their caffeine fix our tea party boy goes in london and has more on what some are calling a case of cups and robbers. the house of commons is looking for someone to join their team of burma reste is to basically serve hot fancy
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beverages to politicians now the job pays overt twenty thousand pounds per year which to put into context for our international viewers is over thirty thousand dollars per year we compare that job to other public sector jobs we've got policeman his salary is have recently been cut starting salaries they now start on nineteen thousand pounds per year similarly with soldiers who start on over seventeen just over seventeen thousand pounds per year so you've got frontline jobs that carry risks to your life the people who are detecting the safety of british citizens that are being paid less than somebody who's serving coffee to politicians one of the police federation representatives took to twitter to ask where they could apply for such a nice restate job in parliament because it's obviously a lot safer and it's paying more than some of the frontline police officers but i spoke to the former editor of the police tribute to find out what the morale is
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like among the police officers amidst these revelations well morale is already rock bottom amongst police officers anyway because of this tax on their pay and conditions their pensions and then they find out as you say the politicians who could like the rest of us may tune coffee themselves and let's not let's remember that the coffee they have will be heavily subsidized by us the taxpayers a lot of people's wages being either frozen or slashed just like the police officers we hit the streets of london a little bit earlier to find out whether people in london think that someone who serves coffee to politicians should be making more money than a front line police officer let's take a look at my coffee twenty grand of commons where do i saw it. so i'll just go there from washington research coffee game here. yes hopefully no sir i said drink tonight again tonight is basically
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a kitchen the boy was just being ridiculous and advertisers and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing something that shows just how out of touch the politicians are with the problems of ordinary briggs and of course not critics saying that with austerity measures we fighting for a lot of people in the u.k. and politicians have made do with a capsule of boiling water and some instant coffee party's problem probably boyko reporting for us there i'll be back with more news coming for you right after a short break you're watching. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives with. over sixty two percent of. us with this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about there were really good public health
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here with our team welcome back tens of thousands of people have marched through the cities in ireland in a massive show of anger against a severe austerity measures. a financial advisor says ireland situation is one of the most difficult in the e.u. dublin's current leadership in the bloc isn't likely to make things any better. than. campaigning. in the. country. and there is. a great deal more. pressure. because
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the power in. europe but. either you have. or you have a breakup with. and they're angry crowds on the streets of ireland may spoil the mood of the e.u. leaders as they celebrate in historic budget deal cutting the blocks spending for the first time ever now it's the european parliament's turn to have its final say on the agreement and the look set to block the budget plan after a secret vote in what is seen as a revolve against the leaders economist james midway weighs in constitutionally they're well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this now whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print and the budgets are already present when you parliament to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in
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the parliament the socialist group there is said there are likely to support it so it's going to be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend carry on spending more money now that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the main e.u. fund will increase as a result of increased payments to new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around this glosses over the fact of course that he wouldn't have got anywhere in this without the support of language merkel in particular so he can he can try to push that. europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this the rate fixing at banks in britain is the subject of an expanding investigation into just how widespread the practice was artie's max kaiser will be
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looking at the issue in depth that two o'clock g.m.t. but here is a preview. i'm going to get c. word for today just for variety i mean if i thought the t. word is being prosecuted in this country or america i would imagine if i thought that our drone sent up a stink frank jenkins over at barclays bank and exploded innocent tast into splattered on the wall i thought that would have any effect and i thought the guardian would give a flying shit about their own population i would mention the t word but i don't know because they don't. as the political crisis escalates in tunisia thousands have rallied there in support of the ruling islam must party but crowds marched in the capital tunis shouting anti french slogans and accusing the former colonial ruler of interfering in its politics this comes a day after the funeral of an opposition politician was marred by clashes with protesters blaming the government and the police for his death violence erupted near the
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cemetery and spread to the anti regime rallies in the city housing security forces to fire tear gas and make arrests and despite authorities are managing to keep huge crowds away from the city center for now author and activist for those who monday believes that the underestimate take a turn for the worse to see its enduring a profound crisis a crisis of the credibility of the existing. holding and any massive creativity overweighted which that it will create i think there are signs that this easily disintegrate into some kind of civil war hopefully it won't happen and we remain. to watch to see how the popular movements organize to prevent this one of those frightening thing is the amount of external support for example by the qatari government of the right wing fundamentalists and it remains to be
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seen whether the got the present government will take any action against these terrorist groups. and it has been almost two years since anti regime protests broke out in another country involved in the arab spring bahrain there the government and the opposition have finally agreed to resume dialogue parties alexy or chefs looks into how dissent is being gagged in the country. if you look through any pro-government newspaper in bahrain you'll get an impression that the government has nothing to hide the news of an uprising of the opposition is dominating the front page and if you look through it you'll see other stories about the political discourse in the country the country's information minister insists bahrain has no problems with people speaking out. in freedom of expression in our english very high because it is guaranteed by the constitution moreover there is a lot to be issued soon that further guarantees yes we have a problem related to banning so much zines but that's to protect bahrain from six
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here in ethnic problems in violence and not any other reason. but this is what happened when we tried several opposition websites having looked through these pages later we did not notice any extremist overtones and so you see from bahrain center for human rights believes the government is deliberately attempting to silence views different to its own behind center for human rights which i work for website is a blog we have almost more than four hundred website out of block or more than most of them are human rights. political website although of certain beheaded our block we have only facebook and twitter there are many which is not the blog sayed spoke to us on the back over two week prison term for what was called breaking the law on public gatherings several weeks later he was arrested again the editor in chief of
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bahrain's only independent newspaper says this is how things are in his country if you speak out if you express yourself you are expressing yourself at your own risks people are brave enough now to speak out but they do that and they could be punished one day you could be put in jail you could end up like and the builder job three years because if you tweeted something. social networking came of age during the uprisings of recent years a fact not lost on bahrain's leaders who have watched almost daily street protests and an unusual drop in web traffic through the country picked up by an american internet mourning tour leaves human rights activists here wondering exactly who the constitutional right to expression really applies to let's hear a chef ski reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. now on to some other international news in brief for you this hour at least six people have been killed as the ferocious snowstorm sweeps across the northeast of the country in the united
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states the blizzard has already caused massive blackouts cutting power to more than seven hundred thousand homes the government declared a state of emergency in the region and more than five thousand flights have been cancelled as well. clashes have broken out on the streets of india's capital after a pakistani convicted of a terrorist attack on parliament in new delhi in two thousand and one was executed mohammed. was hanged after the president rejected his mercy petition the execution sparked violence between protesters and supporters of the ruling the high profile terrorist attack claimed more than a dozen lives while increasing tension between india and pakistan. over two thousand people took to the streets of athens to protest against of the far right golden dawn party marchers chanted slogans against golden dawn which was widely criticized for its me a fascist policies the party has gained significant support since the economic
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crisis began in the country parties are international news agency was on the ground when the rally broke out. two militants have been killed in fighting with troops near the town of god after a suicide attack at a military checkpoint clashes occurred after villagers detained the two young men allegedly strapped with explosives on saturday it comes a day after an attacker blew himself up in the same city a total of the bombings have now been attempted since the french army came to mali to fight is the most extremists in the country's north france is now preparing to leave the region and is seeking to hand over the mission to a un peacekeeping force. at least sixteen football fans have been killed and twenty one injured after their bus crashed on the way home from a football match in official say. the bus lost control and plunged into a ravine from a winding mountain road south of the capital. most of the victims are reported to
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be teenagers. ukrainian protest group femen have made it to the berlin film festival but only as far as the red carpet the notorious activists were staging a topless protest against female circumcision but police quickly removed the half naked women from the venue parties like hard finished i've been quizzing people in new york to find out if they would be ready to bare it all for a good cause. a new york city it's legal for ladies to protest topless so where are the boobies this week let's talk about that part of the body even though it's still private. but do you think that would draw
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a lot of attention to the cause but then you know that. what it attracts you to. would you ever consider protesting topless. a reason yeah what would be the reason. you would go topless for that yeah would you do it well maybe you are not but do you think french girls would do it more often than american girls i think so why is that what's wrong with the kind of crazy it would be a way to get he was. someone. do you think that it would be little it was or help because. i don't know if he'll do it much it's will bring more awareness i guess people will look so isn't that what protesting is all about . let him out lady the bottom line is going topless is a sure fire way to bring attention to your cause so ladies you might want to consider that the next time you suit up for your big rally.
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coming up after the break we take an in-depth look at the impact of the h.i.v. aids epidemic on the african-american population. secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the us consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said things like that the revolutions
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that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the us secretary has basically admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread chatting to mock recy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidentally or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad it's rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are i.

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